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Yeah you're probably right and i did do a search for "accessing text in a textarea javascript" but it gave me links on how to access selected text in a textarea...so i just posted....maybe i shoulda looked harder

Anyways it doesnt work in this instance as its part of a ajax function. The ajax loads text in to a textarea for editing. I need a way to get at the edited version of the text and get it in to a javascript variable. At present all it does it get the version that was originally loaded in to the textarea before editing......